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Trailer for Hard Labour, a documentary by Bel TrewThe Independent
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00:00This scene is from a film about mothers and babies dying in childbirth.
00:05Viewers may find some footage distressing.
00:16We've infused a lot of hope
00:21that finally the world would be on track
00:24to reach zero preventable maternal mortality.
00:35I don't know what's going on.
00:37They came from your car.
00:42There was no ambulance.
00:46That's why
00:50we didn't succeed.
00:59It's absolutely obscene.
01:02Very costly.
01:05I've decided that we will fund the increase in defence spending by cutting overseas development.
01:12What does that mean for the babies that are being born?
01:15When funding is cut, what that will mean for women and for their babies?
01:20Services get shut down.
01:24They will have no access to medicines that can help them survive childbirth.
01:31No women should die of childbirth.
01:35This baby had been on this earth for two and a half hours.
01:49They will not forgive us
01:51for having promised them a world with more dignity.
01:57And I'll fail in them.
01:58And I'll fail in them.
02:12And I'll fail in them.
02:14You don't lose it.
02:14I'm losing it.
02:14I'm losing it.
02:15I'm losing it.
02:15I'm losing it.
02:15I'm losing it.
02:16You're losing it.
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